Bren Opinions Please

[Fruitcake]

I'm crap at photography, I will admit but today, I took some of my old Bren to see if I could create some moody detail shots as the ones showing the whole thing were a big pile of steaming cack.

Opinions/tips please?


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Cheers.

[matthew_h]

I like the shots but to the uninitiated they don't tell you what the subject is. Nice lighting though.

[Fruitcake]

matthew_h said:

I like the shots but to the uninitiated they don't tell you what the subject is. Nice lighting though.

Bren Light Machine Gun, British Army, WW2. There are the detail ones I will use for the purposes of showing the typical markings.

[GetCarter]

May well be a gun methinks.

Nice shots

[GetCarter]

Shots down the barrel would be good!

[Fruitcake]

GetCarter said:

May well be a gun methinks.

Nice shots

Praise indeed.

GetCarter said:

Shots down the barrel would be good!

Something to do tomorrow methinks.

I will try to get a good one of my old Great War Webley, the rifling's great.

[matthew_h]

Oh, I knew it was a Bren gun from the thread title but just meant that the shots themselves don't really show that it is the gun.

Barrel shots as suggested by Mr Carter would be ace

[Fruitcake]

matthew_h said:

Oh, I knew it was a Bren gun from the thread title but just meant that the shots themselves don't really show that it is the gun.

Whoops.

Sorry.

[matthew_h]

Basically, I'd love to see more of the gun itself.

[Fruitcake]

matthew_h said:

Basically, I'd love to see more of the gun itself.

I'm too embarassed to show the full ones on so, erm...

I do have more of the gun itself but unfortunately, I'm holding it.

Will see what I can do tomorrow.

[monkeyhanger]

Pop Quiz...

Does anyone know where the name "Bren" comes from?

1st correct answer gets the title of Smart-arse

[Fruitcake]

monkeyhanger said:

Pop Quiz...

Does anyone know where the name "Bren" comes from?

1st correct answer gets the title of Smart-arse

Yes.

Zabrojovka BRno and ENfield


ETA: I'm not sure I count though....

Edited by Fruitcake on Saturday 13th January 20:20

[monkeyhanger]

Fruitcake said:

monkeyhanger said:

Pop Quiz...

Does anyone know where the name "Bren" comes from?

1st correct answer gets the title of Smart-arse

Yes.

Zabrojovka BRno and ENfield


ETA: I'm not sure I count though....

You can be smart-arse if you like

I only found out myself the first time i went to Brno a couple of years ago, it came up somehow in a drunken half english, half czech conversation in a pub

[GetCarter]

Oi Fruitcake... one of these days you'll really have to let us know what you are driving to Le Mans!

[SuperlightR]

Seeing that you showed yours, I will show mine!

Not often blokes get to compare their Brens!

B&W works well and would be my tip and also having 2 of the moving parts which are easily recognisable and perhaps 'emotive'

Edited by SuperlightR on Saturday 13th January 23:29

Edited by SuperlightR on Saturday 13th January 23:30

[cossiemetro]

i used to live in ENFIELD LOCK where they made the guns, PATTERN ROOM etc used to hear them testing all the time

[S500]

GetCarter said:

May well be a gun methinks.

Nice shots

Guns....GetCarter.....roll the movie.

Eric: So, what're you doing then? On your holidays?
Jack Carter: No, I'm visiting relatives.
Eric: Oh, that's nice.
Jack Carter: It would be... if they were still living.

[Fruitcake]

GetCarter said:

Oi Fruitcake... one of these days you'll really have to let us know what you are driving to Le Mans!

You're going to have to wait for the Le Mans chariot thread mate. I will have to dig the car out of hibernation and get some photos.

I'm still worried about getting there though...

[Fruitcake]

SuperlightR said:

Seeing that you showed yours, I will show mine!

Not often blokes get to compare their Brens!

B&W works well and would be my tip and also having 2 of the moving parts which are easily recognisable and perhaps 'emotive'

A Mk2. A man of taste

[Fruitcake]

OK, here's some more details. They're getting worse, I think because of the lighting and background (and due to the fact that I'm good with a camera in the same way as Tony Blair is good with telling the truth...)

But here goes:


Thompson Sub Machine Gun. Don't like this one at all but no matter how hard I tried, I just couldn't get it to look any better than this


Webley Mk6 .455. A little too much light, I thought. Don't like the shadow either.


Webley Mk4 .38. I wanted to get the detail of the Bakelite in (which I thought was cool) but the pic in general seems a little... overpowering?

And finally...

Smith and Wesson Victory .38. I wanted to get the legend in but also the detail of the machining of the cylinder but I think it's lacking something.

I know there's only so much one can do with detail shots but any help would be very well recieved.

The down the barrel Bren shot was prohibitive; I simply couldn't get enough detail to pick out the rifling and enough light in. I must figure out a way of doing it without either the light or the camera (!) being blocked out by the conical flash hider on the gun.

BY the way, the camera is a Fujifilm FinePix E510.